Delbert Jacobson Collection

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US WaBuPNRA D0016

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Delbert Jacobson Collection

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Extent

45 boxes of documents and engineering drawings

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Scope and content

The Delbert Jacobson Collection holds primarily engineering drawings. Subjects include Seattle's King Street Station and other Pacific Northwest facilities of both the Northern Pacific Railroad Company and the Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.). Materials cover much of the twentieth century.

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Conditions governing access

Please see the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive Collection Management Policy for further information.

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Please see the Pacific Northwest Railway Archives Reproduction Policy for further information.

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  • English

Scripts of the material

  • Latin

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Custodial history

Ownership resides in the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive

Immediate source of acquisition

Donor: Orange Empire Railway Museum. Documents were originally retreived from the trash outside Seattle's King Street Station by Delbert Jacobson and subsequently taken to California. Later donated to the Orange Empire Railway Museum, which subsequently transferred them to the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive as not pertinent to Orange Empire Railway Museum's mission. Accrual W2010-03 received 11/12/2010. Accrual W2018-06 receieved 01/23/2018.

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W2010-03, W2018-06

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Describing Archives - A Content Standard (DACS) 2nd Edition 2013

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